Myoporum boninense subsp. australe Chinnock APNI*
Synonyms: Myoporum ellipticum APNI*
Description: Glabrous prostrate to erect shrub to 2 m high, branches non-tuberculate or rarely obscurely tuberculate.
Leaves with a distinct petiole-like base, lamina elliptic, ovate to obovate or oblanceolate, rarely ± circular, 1.2–7 cm long, 5.5–36 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, margins entire, surfaces concolorous, shiny, glabrous.
Flowers 1–8 in axils; pedicels 10–15 mm long. Sepals valvate or slightly imbricate, ovate to triangular, 1.5–2.5 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide. Corolla 6–8 mm diam., white, unspotted; lobes obtuse.
Fruit ovoid to globose, 5–10 mm long, 5–8 mm diam., smooth, light purple.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in coastal heath, often on coastal cliffs and on sand dunes or in Casuarina woodland near estuarine inlets; north from Eden.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC
Other Australian states: Qld
|The single subspecies in NSW. Characters and distribution as for the species in NSW.|
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